Saturday Stories: Bad Studies, 5-12s' Vaccinations, And Childism

James Heathers, in The Atlantic, on how the house of cards upon which ivermectin studies were built likely underpins much of science. 

Katherine Wu, in The Atlantic, with a Q&A with pediatrician and vaccine researcher Sallie Permar about the vaccination of children. 

Nisreen A. Alwan, in the BMJ, on how childism during the pandemic has seen governments failing to protect children

Saturday Stories: Wellness Conspiracies, Libel Chill, And The Air We Breath

Eva Wiseman, in The Guardian, on the overlap between wellness/spirituality and conspiracy theories.

Stephanie Lee, in Buzzfeed, on how the world's most prominent hydroxychloroquine researcher/crusader is trying to punish one of the world's foremost scientific fraud detectives for pointing out his pants, and studies, were on fire. 

Linsey Marr, in The New York Times, on COVID, the flu, and the air we breath.

Saturday Stories: Nazi Analogies, They're Not Just Numbers, And Who Are The Unvaccinated

Arthur Caplan, in The Cancer Letter, on how Nazi analogies (and more specifically Vinay Prasad's) regarding COVID are imbecilic, ignorant, and dangerous.

Marie-Danielle Smith, in MacLeans, with the story of a family of 3 who like all of those we've lost from COVID, were not just numbers. 

Zeynep Tufekci, in The New York Times, explains how the unvaccinated may not be who you think they are. 

Saturday Stories: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Edition

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on his own substack Kareem.Substack.com with two stories about vaccination and the NBA.

The first on why LeBron is wrong to support hesitancy

And the second on Andrew Wiggins' whining about getting vaccinated.

Saturday Stories: Airborne Silence, The Next Pandemic, And Fertility

Joe Vipond, Kashif Pirzada, and Danielle Cane, in The Toronto Star, on how Canada's culture of silence around airborne transmission has led to confusion and undoubtedly, to avoidable illness and death.

Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, on the lessons we should be employing from COVID as a means to deal with the inevitable next pandemic. 

Jen Gunter, in her substack The Vagenda, with everything you need to know on vaccinations and fertility